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Parents and Teachers Decry Portland Public Schools’ Decision Not to Distribute Textbooks During the Pandemic There’s no single set of rules about who gets textbooks and, in some cases, parents don’t know if the books even exist. Portland Public Schools building. (Brian Burk) Updated January 8 Since the pandemic closed schools in March and virtual learning became the norm, Kevin Rudiger s son spends all day staring at a computer screen. His sixth grader, Isaac, attends Hosford Middle School in Southeast Portland. Portland Public Schools provides Isaac and its nearly 50,000 other students with Chromebooks and online resources such as PDF documents.